7 Quotes by Ysabeau S. Wilce

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.

People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?

Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.

Lucky for you, I am not very curious. A famous criminal, assisted by a protection egregore, and a flying octopus have a knock-down drag-out ruckus in my lobby over a girl hiding behind a false name, who has arrived at my hotel in the company of a Pacifica express agent. Most people would be very curious. But I am not nosy by nature. All I care about is who is going to pay for the damages.

Nini Mo said a good swear is like a good purge – it don’t taste so good, but it sure does clear out your system.

People keep asking “Jacob or Edward?” when the really important question is “Diamond Dave or Sammy?

So when Fyrdraacas turn fourteen and celebrate their Catorcena, and are then adults in the eyes of the Warlord, off we go to Benica Barracks to learn to march, to learn to ride, to learn to shoot, to learn to die. But I do not want to go to the Barracks and learn to be a killer, a servant, a slave.